Horseshoe.



' PATENTED 10? 1'907.

- R. HfIBNBR; HORSESHOB.

APPLICATION IILED APR. 5. 1906.

M, Z r: w? a UNITED STATES I ROBERT HU NER,

OF NETw' YORK, N.

nonsnsnon.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ROBERT Hi'JBNER, a

' subject'of the Emperor of Germany, and a resident of the city of. NewYork, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Im- .provement in Horseshoes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

. construction so that the po nts of the brush- The object of thisinvention is to provide a non-slipping horseshoe .and it consists insuch construction that the horse will, as it were,

stand upon thepoints of a brush of proper will maintain substantiallytheir position point-wise to the ground supporting'the horse.

It also consists of the features of construction hereinafter moreparticularly described.

containing the brush.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of a portion ofthe brush detached from the horseshoe in the form in which I prefer toconstruct it. Fig. 2 is a lan or edge, view of the same. view of thehorseshoe in its preferred form Fig. 4 is a side view of the same andFig. 5 is a cross section on the line as, :10 of Fig. 3.

The so-called brush is composed of vertical wires 1:, of such size,material and closeness of arrangement that they will maintainsubstantially their point-wise-to-theeground position under the weightof the horse and the blows to which they are subjected. The material ofwhich I prefer to make them is cold drawn steel piano wire, and I preferto unite them by weaving across them a filler of wire 2, so that thevertical win-s remain straight and the bends necessary for the weavingoperation are substantially confined to the filler wires which act as abrace or support between the individual vertical wires '1.

The material of which the filler wires 2 are composed is of lessimportance, although the material as the ver'j ical wires.

v I have obtained good. results for'the shoes of a horse of averageweight by constructing the brush of vertical wires consisting of colddrawn steel iano wire of a size between No. 6 (.0157 inc ies diameter)and No. 12 (.0283 inches diameter) joined together by a filler ofsmaller wire, say from No. 5 (.0138 inches in diameter) to No. 6 (.0157inches in diamefiller wires may be composed of the same ter), the brushbeing embedded in the shoe,-

ashereinafter described. I? I prefer to construct the horseshoe asfollows: 3 is a plate which, on'its upper side,is

Specificationof Letters Patent. I Application filed April 5| 1906.Serial No. 309.973-

Fig. 3 is a ottom- Patezfted bec. 10 ;1'15'07.

provided with any suitable or customary projections 4, to enable it tobetter fit the horse s hoof. On the bottom of. this plate, is providedthe bed or recess within.which'-.-the brush is to be held and whichIprefer to jections' located, respectively, alongjthe outer and inneredges of the plate 3." These rows of projections are designated,respectively, 5, 5, 5 etc. and 6, 6 6 etc. and each individtinct from acalk; the opposing'surfaces of the two sets-of projections beingpreferably made slightly lnclined toward each other from the vertical.Thus,aspace is formed for the rece tion of the brush, which brush is"preferably f) This brush projects below the'projections' 5,

Wears down to the level of the projections 5, 6, the projections,beingof softer metal than the brush, will wears away, at least equallyas fast as the brush so as to continue the support of the animalsubstantially upon t e points of the brush. I

At the forward end of the shoe where a 80-: called toe-calk isoccasionally provided,- I may arrange a series of closely setprojections 7, 8, 9, in line with the outer series of projections 5.Three projections may be produced. by two sets of diagonal groovescrossing so that the three sets of points 7, 8, 9, break joints witheach other, as shown.

Ih making the brush, the filler wires are interwoven with each row ofvertical Wires separately, thus forming each row of vertical sufiicientnumber of these fabrics are then groove so that the filler wiresext'endcontinin horizontal positionl The brush is then toward each othersufiiciently to clamp the brush and hold it.

Although I have shown and descrii d in detail both the bed in the shoeitself and the brush are maintained in vertical position, I do not wishto be understood as limiting myself to the particular means describedfor this purpose since I I first one to support the animal substantiallyform between two rows of downward 'pro-.

ual projection is preferably pointed as 'disutnot necessarily continuous6, when the shoe is new and when the brush wires, as it were, in aseparate fabric. A

placed together to fill the groove of the horse- I shoe and bent intothe form of the horseshoe between the two sets of projections=5 and 6,

'uously around the groove from heel to heel 1' placed in the groove ofthe horseshoe and the p points or rims binding the groove are benthorizontal wires whereby the members of the understandthat I am the uponthe points of a brush adapted for maintaining itself under his Weight. eThe. circumferential extent of each of the rojections and 6 will bevaried to suit the liin ofwear to which the shoe will be sub' jected;:in fact, theprojections 5 may not be connected from each other but maycollect ively constitute a flange extending continuously'aro'und theshoe and the same may -10 which-the brush projects below .tiODS when newwill also be dependent upon 1 horizontally with, whereby the fir firmlyfix be said of the projections 6'. The extent to the projec- Patent: 20

1. In a horse shoe, a brush'composed of substantially vertical wires,retaining wires arranged and interlaced there st named Wires are ed in.place but otherwise free to move, and means adapted to clamp upon andhold the brush in lace.

2 Iniahorses 0e, a brush composed of substantially vertical wires,retaining wires interlaced theremg projections between which the brushis clamped and held in place.

3. A horse shoe comprising a plate provided along its inner edge with aseries of spaced pyramidal projections, having substantially verticalinner and tapering outer faces with flat spaces between them and alongits outer edge with spaced pyramidal projections, having vertical innerand tapering outer faces, with fiat spaces bet-ween themanda toe plate,consisting of rows of teeth breaking joints and located in line with theouter series of projections opposite 011eor more projections of theinner series, all arranged to operate with the continuous single fillingor pad as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT HUBN ER.

